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Page 1: Annual Report · Project Director’s Report We have just completed our third year of the Project. All along the way, we have been helping each other to articulate our deeper aspirations

Annual Report 2015

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TO DATE

55 Graduates from the Emerging Leaders Programs (ELP) 2013­15

40% of ELP Graduates have secured Board Director positions in aged care, health, mental

health, disability, drug and alcohol, education, training and peak body groups

21 % of ELP Graduates have secured Board Traineeship positions

60 ELP scholarships offered since the Project’s inception in 2012

30 Community Partners sponsoring the Project

317 e­Members (newsletters, website) of the Project

THIS  YEAR

19 ELP Graduates

8 new Community Partners 

Establishment of the ELP Alumni Network

115 New e­Members

Lotterywest Funding for new website (coming soon)

4 New Governance Resources:

 ­  “Emerging Funding Models for the Aged Care and Community Sector;" Ebook

  ­ “Get on Board” – Helping to Develop Young and Emerging Leaders for Board Roles in the

WA Aged Care and Community Sectors” Ebook

­ "Embracing Age Diversity on Boards ­ The Power of an Untapped Resource" Ebook

­ Governance Training List

Achievements

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VISION

MISSION

GOALS

To create a world class aged care and community

sector underpinned by strong Board governance and

leadership.

A   success i ve   r ec ru i tmen t   s t r eam o f  Boa rd ­ r eady   young  p ro fess i ona l s   t o   s t r eng then

commun i t y  Boa rd  gove rnance  

A   s t r ong   coa l i t i on  o f   commun i t y   pa r t ne r   o rgan i sa t i ons   commi t t ed   t o   cu l t u ra l   change  and   t he

i nc l us i on  o f   young  p ro fess i ona l s   i n  Boa rd  gove rnance  and   l eade rsh i p

An  ev i dence  body  o f   r esea rch ,   i n f o rma t i on  and   r esou rces   t o   engage  and  p romo te  age

d i ve r s i t y   on   commun i t y  Boa rds .

To   f ac i l i t a t e   age  d i ve r s i t y   on   commun i t y

Boa rds   t o   imp rove  Boa rd  pe r f o rmance

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Project Director’s

Report

Systems Thinking For Better Leadership 

Many of you would be familiar with the work of Peter Senge who wrote 'The Fifth

Discipline', which is often cited as a seminal book to help managers overcome their

obstacles to growth and create brave new futures for them and their organisations.

In 2015 he published the thought­provoking article, ‘The Dawn of Systems

Leadership’. The article maintains that Systems Leaders need three core

competences to foster collective leadership. These are: the ability to see the larger

picture; the capacity to foster reflection and generative conversations; and shifting

collective focus from reactive problem solving to co­creating the future.

I am convinced that the larger picture that we are focused on today is the aged care

and community sectors for which we have a shared ambition to create world class

services for a civil society.

Our capacity to foster reflection is within the mirror we use to observe the prevailing

assumptions we carry into conversations, and consider how they may limit us. I am

continually challenging assumptions by asking “Why do you hold the belief that

Young Leaders can’t be Board Directors?”.

Generative conversations are what I see occurring when Community Partners

present to the Young Leaders in the collective atmosphere of our Unconventions or

at one­to­one intergenerational mentoring sessions. These conversations centre on

each of us being interested in learning and exchanging ideas about how we can

improve governance and leadership. In these dialogues we undertake a shared

exploration towards greater understanding, connection and possibility of what the

future could look like. We also build Trust which is essential to allow us to listen to

and hear the views of others.

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Project Director’sReport

We have just completed our third year of the Project.  All along the way, we have

been helping each other to articulate our deeper aspirations and we are continually

building on the tangible accomplishments we have achieved together. We are

building an inspiring vision, while at the time facing difficult tensions between this

vision and the reality of our sector’s shifting sands. It is a positive experience

however because we are learning how to use these tensions to create new

approaches to governance and leadership.

Without a doubt the Engaging Young Leaders on Aged Care and Community

Boards Project is a clear demonstration of collective leadership. Each Community

Partner has made this Project a success. You have given your money, your time,

your knowledge and your experiences; and you have been courageous in opening

yourself and your Board rooms to help develop Directors for our nation.

As we continue this Project, more and more Systems Leaders who catalyze

collective leadership will emerge. I invite those leaders who are yet to engage with

us to do so, so that you too may be part of this exciting journey.

Dr Nicky Howe

CEO, Southcare Inc

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Project Facilitator’s

Report

I was so pleased to see Community Partner, Holyoake’s CEO Angie Paskevicius win the WATelstra Businesswoman of the Year Award earlier this year.  I think it marks the increasingrecognition of the leadership shown by the not­for­profit (NFP) sector.  

The Engaging Young Leaders on Aged Care and Community Boards Project is aboutleadership ­  Leadership demonstrated collectively by Board Directors, senior executives andemerging leaders.  It is a leadership that requires commitment and courage to be innovativeand to support collaboration and diversity to strengthen the sector.

And momentum is building!  With our third Emerging Leaders Program this year, we can nowproudly say that 40% of the three groups (ie 22 participants) have been appointed as BoardDirectors with even more stepping up to Board traineeships and committee positions.

This is a wonderful achievement when there is still much stereotypical debate about thebenefits of age diversity on Boards.  The commitment, courage and leadership displayed byour Program Alumni and Community Partners to create this mindset shift is incredible.

The Unconventions have also continued to offer exceptional learning experiences bringingtogether a broad mix of attendees and allowing for exploration and discussion on governanceissues facing the NFP sector. The first Unconvention showcased a remarkable mix of BoardDirectors to debate and discuss the issues challenging Boards, including Board composition,recruitment and leadership.  Professor Paul Flatau from the Centre of Social Impact sharedthe latest research about NFPs and the greater need for professional development.  Thesecond Unconvention shared the knowledge and expertise of George Jones, 2012 WASenior Australian of the Year as well as presenting panels and workshops on Boardtraineeships, innovation and entrepreneurship in the NFP sector.

We’ve had an exciting response already to the 2016 Emerging Leaders in GovernanceProgram so we are confident to bring together another excellent group of aspiring BoardDirectors. I am always open to conversations with Community Partners about how we canprovide more inspiring and useful Unconventions and training for emerging Board Directorsin the NFP sector.

Alicia CurtisProject Facilitator

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The Team

www.youngleadersonboards.com.au

Nicky - Project Director

Brett- ELP Alumni

Martin- ELP AlumniTamara (r) - ELP Alumni

Sean - ELP Alumni

Alicia - Project Facilitator

Laura - ELP Alumni

Emerging Leaders Program

(ELP) Alumni

[email protected]

Dr Nicky Howe

E: [email protected]

Alicia Curtis

E:  [email protected]

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Investing in Leadership

Looking back to 2012 when Southcare launched this Project with MercyCare and Baptistcare, it isinspiring, encouraging and a remarkable success that we now have 30 aged care and communityorganisations supporting the Engaging Young Leaders on Aged Care and Community BoardsProject as Community Partners.  Eight organisations joined our coalition this year and we arecurrently having conversations with others who are keen to support it.

What started off as an initiative for the aged care sector has now extended into the community,sector, state and local government and the business sector. Our Community Partners are indisability, health, youth, education, training, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, advocacy, housing,recruitment and a wide variety of community, social and neighbourhood services.  In our diversity,we are committed to the mission of attracting talented young people with a broad range of skills andexperiences onto our Boards and Senior Committees to foster innovation with new ideas andperspectives, to develop a leadership foundation that connects effectively with our diversecommunity of customers and stakeholders and to promote succession planning.

Community Partners

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Community Partners 2015

Not only do Community Partners sponsor the Project financially (events and  scholarships),they also share their knowledge and experience as speakers at our Unconventions andnetworking events and as intergenerational mentors.  They invite our Emerging Leader Program(ELP) participants into their communities and for site visits, they offer Board observation andtraineeship opportunities to ELP participants and graduates and several have welcomedoutstanding graduates as Directors on their Boards of Governance.

Community Partners are also instrumental in securing new supporters.  Community Partner, theCity of South Perth hosted a breakfast presentation in August for Local Government Mayors andCEOs to engage with the Project; and we are pleased most recently to welcome the City ofCanning as a  Community Partner.  Linkwest also gave us an exhibition stand at their 'Into theSpotlight' Conference in August where we were able to connect with many potential partners.Personally many Community Partner CEOs and Directors are also reaching out to their peers topromote this Project for our community.

We thank all our Community Partners for their courage, time, resources and money to facilitateopportunities for a new generation of leaders.

SouthcareHACC

CommunityWestSilverchainHall & PriorHolyoakeMercyCareBaptistcareLinkwestBethanieRiseRuah

Hope Community ServicesFoundation HousingCity of South PerthCity of Canning

Nulsen Disability ServicesYMCAAnsonACSWASwancareAdvocareAnglicare

Community VisionMosaic

WACOSSLASA

YWCA of PerthMelville Cares

Rotary

"The program has impacted me in so manyways, however two main things that I've reallybeen struck by are the generosity andexpertise of the facilitators, mentors andcommunity partners and how willing they haveall been to pay it forward to a new group ofemerging leaders and share their knowledge.Often we view leaders as unapproachable,however everyone involved has been sosupportive throughout the program and hasinspired me to ensure I am the same". 

Marc Zen, ELP Graduate

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Equipped to Lead

Nineteen outstanding leaders graduated from the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) on 29 Aprilthis year. The Graduation Ceremony at Southcare Inc, was attended by Community Partnersand leaders and family and friends of the graduates.  

The ELP commenced in January 2015.  Program commitments for participants included aleadership retreat, site visits, Board governance and skills training, networking and mentoringsessions, Board observations, media promotion and group projects.  The Program wasdelivered by Alicia Curtis with Dr. Nicky Howe and guest presenters.

All 19 graduates secured scholarships and entry to the program in late 2014 through acompetitive application process where each participant was identified as engaged, involved andready to make a positive impact in the community as Board and communityleaders. Applications for the 2016 Emerging Leaders Governance Program opened inNovember 2015.  An information night on 4 November 2015 was very well attended andselections are underway.

The Emerging Leaders Program(ELP)

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James Jegasothy

Nicole Brown

Davina Hunter

Miguel Gomez

Shanna Crispin

Victoria Long

Seemarpreet Riyat

Gabriel Reed

Marc Zen

Karen Wellington

Alana Bernstein

Tamara Findlay

Phil Beckett

Tara Burke

Laura Koh

Dane Etheridge

Maryam Khan

Stefanie Johnston

Travis Thomas 

"This program has delivered all that I expected and then some. Inow feel equipped to become a board director and have learnt agreat deal about myself as well. The training we have received hasassisted my professional development, increased my confidence inthe workplace, and improved my communication. "

Since the Program's inception in 2013, 40% of ELP Graduateshave secured Board Director Positions in aged care, health,mental health, disability, drug and alcohol, education, training andpeak body groups. All graduates join a network of ELP Alumni,members and community leaders committed to better Boardgovernance.Congratulations to the following ELP graduates whohave secured Board positions and traineeships at the time of thisreport:

Board PositionsMiguel Gomez ­ Southcare Inc.Stephanie Johnston – Echo Community ServicesSeemar Riyat – LinkwestKaren Wellington – Classroom of HopeSean Thorpe – Starick Inc.Louise Forster – Palmerston Inc.

Board TraineeshipsKaren Wellington Community West Board Traineeship 2015Tamara Findley Southcare Board Traineeship 2015Davina Hunter Swancare Board Traineeship 2015Travis Thomas CommunityWest Board Traineeship 2015Brooke Jones Community Vision Board Traineeship 2015Tara Burke Starick Inc Board Traineeship 2015­2016

ELP Graduates 2015

Laura Koh, ELP Graduate

For a few months last year, Seemar Riyat an ELP graduate, was a'shadow treasurer' on the Linkwest Board, learning the ropes fromLinkwest's 2014­15 Treasurer. When the Treasurer stepped down atthis year's AGM, Seemar, who is a management accountant,nominated for the Board and is now our Treasurer for 2015­16.

Linkwest as a Community Partner can certainly testify to the successof this Project.

Jane Chilcott, CEO Linkwest, Community Partner

Miguel, Karen and Seemar

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A Governance Mission

The Engaging Young Leaders on Aged Care andCommunity Boards Project is committed tostrengthening Board governance and facilitatingage diversity on community Boards.  

We support these objectives throughconversations, sharing Board knowledge andexperience, delivering customised governancetraining, developing Board resources and offeringBoard observations and traineeships providedthrough Community Partners, ELP Graduatesand our leadership networks.

Talking about Governance

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Unconventions

Two Unconventions in February ('Building the Board You Want") and September 2015 ("NFP Future Innovations" )

brought our Unconventions total to eight since the inception of the Project in 2013.  Unconventions continue to book

out early and enjoy strong support from aged care and community leaders and ELP alumni.  Many of the

Governance conversations in panel discussions, debates and speaker presentations are available in the Toolkit on

the website.

Unconventions bring Board Directors, CEOs, Senior Executives, academia and young leaders together to work for

better Board governance in the aged care and community sector. They are a forum to explore, debate, review and

have conversations about Board governance, leadership and the inclusion of young people on Boards. ELP

participants have the opportunity to meet, network and learn from the “real­world” situations and experiences of

industry leaders.

Board Observations

Several of our Community Partners and supportersprovided opportunities for ELP participants to sit inon their Board meetings and have exposure toBoard papers, procedures, decision­making andoperations. This experience gave manyparticipants the confidence to apply for Boardpositions and traineeships after graduation.  Ourthanks to the following organisations who providedBoard Observation opportunities during 2015:CommunityWest, Rise Network, Interchange,Southcare, Baptistcare, Anglicare, WACOSS,ACSWA, Linkwest, Hope Community Services,RUAH and Diabetes Research.

Board TraineeshipsBoard traineeships give emerging leaders theopportunity to experience the roles and responsibilitiesof a Board Director, without the financial and legalresponsibilities. Through traineeships, participants gainan understanding of Board processes in a hands­onenvironment, by reading Board papers, attendingBoard meetings, and participating in Boarddiscussions.  In 2015, Southcare, Starick Inc,Swancare, Melville Cares and CommunityWestmade Board traineeships available to ELP graduates.Several Community Partners set up BoardTraineeships for staff in their own organisations.  Manypast graduates from past programs have also gone onto secure full Board positions after completingtraineeships.

Resources

In 2015, ELP participants produced 3 ebooks anda governance resource for the resource toolkit. Theseare available on the website.

­ Emerging Funding Models for the Aged Care andCommunity Sector

­ Get on Board – Helping to Develop Young andEmerging Leaders for Board Roles in the WA AgedCare and Community Sectors

­ Embracing Age Diversity on Boards ­ The Power ofan Untapped Resource

­ Governance Training List

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Building a Successful Board Mix

Building Board Resiliency

through Partnerships

Engaging Young Professionals in

the NFP Sector

Twitter #boarduncon

Do you trust your fellow Board

members?How to implement a Trainee

Board Director program

Using Edward De Bono Thinking

Methodologies on Boards

Do NFPs need Corporate

Professionals on their Board to

Survive and Thrive?

Are Board Chairs integral to

choosing Board Composition?

UNCONVENTIONS

2015

Are skill set matrixes integral

to Board Recruitment?

What we spoke about...

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Professor Paul Flatau, Chair in Social

Investment and Impact and Director of the

Centre for Social Impact at the UWA

Business School

Julian Keys, Chair, Swancare 

Dr Dorothy Jones, Board Member, Ruah

Jonathon Woolfrey, Chair, Hope

Community Services 

Tara Ludlow, Chair, ISHAR

Geoff Parnell, Mosaic 

Bev Jowle, CEO South Coastal Women’s

Health Services

Linda Crumblin , Chair, CommunityWest

Garry McGrechan, Chair, Baptistcare

Dr Moira Watson, Chair, Volunteer

Taskforce

John Barrington, Chair, Anglicare

Ali Sumner, Chair, Green World Revolution

and CEO, POWA Institute

George Jones. Sundance Resources'

Retired Chairman

Dr Nicky Howe, CEO Southcare 

Jonathan Smith, Director, ANSON 

Megan Paull, Director ­ Postgraduate

Research, School of Management

and Governance, Murdoch University 

Maryam Khan, Business Analyst,

Baptistcare

Steph Shorter, Social Ventures Australia

Alicia Curtis – Keynote Speaker and

Facilitator

Liz Prescott, CEO, AUSUM

Rhys Williams, CEO Make Place

Mario Gomes, Business Development and

Marketing Manager, Holyoake

Unconvention 2015 Speakers

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A Culture of Leadership

The Engaging Young Leaders on Aged Care andCommunity Boards is creating a supportiveculture of leadership for young leadersto continue to be successful on their leadershipjourney.

Intergenerational mentoring sessions, dedicatednetworking events and the recent establishmentof an alumni network are ensuring that ourgraduates have the ongoing support of theleadership community to continue theirleadership growth.

Leadership Communities

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The creation of an ELP Alumni in June 2015 has generated new

opportunities for ELP Graduates and other young leaders interested in the

program to stay connected to each other through social, learning and

networking opportunities which will occur over time.  The Alumni’s first

event “Why now is a good time to be on a Board” in November featuring

George Jones, Retired Sundance Chairman as speaker, was well

attended.  More events are planned for 2016 as well as a Linkedin group.

The Alumni Committee is composed of ELP graduates Laura, Tamara,

Sean, Brett; and volunteer Martin.

As part of the ELP Program, several community partners andsupporters provided intergenerational mentoring sessions to each ofthe ELP participants.  It was a unique opportunity for these youngleaders to learn from the successes and experiences of establishedcommunity leaders.  Participants reported gaining valuable coachingand guidance to progress their personal leadership aspirations aswell as insights into real world leadership techniques and challenges.Several have developed lasting connections with these leadersgiving them the confidence to feel accepted into the leadershipcommunity.

Acknowledgements to all Community Partners who providedmentoring sessions to the ELP; including Rise Network, Holyoake,Southcare, Linkwest, MercyCare, Baptistcare, Silverchain, Anglicareand City of South Perth.

"The mentoring session withChris How from Bethanie,solidified my desire to work inthe management and/orgovernance areas of an agedcare organisation to achieve thebest possible care and choicefor consumers. Not only do Iknow where I want to be, I nowhave a plan for achieving thesteps to get there".

Integenerational Mentoring

Community Partners, supportersand ELP participants had manyopportunities to broaden theirnetworks, share ideas, and makemeaningful connections with eachother at a dedicated networkingnight, the unconventions andseveral other events.  Many of ourELP participants come fromprofessional backgrounds outsideof the community sector andthese events were an importantopportunity to meet and developrelationships in the communitysector.

ELP Alumni

Stefanie Johnston, ELP Board

Graduate and Director Echo

Community Services

Networking

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In 2015, we received $192,000 in financialsupport and $31,200 in­kind support(venues, training, services, speakers) fromcommunity partners.

The representation is provided with financial information for the

calendar year to 2 December 2015.

Thank you for supporting good governance in

the aged care and community sector.

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